What to do with all that Christmas wrapping paper! The materials used for making some wrapping paper mean it’s not always accepted for recycling because it might be dyed or contain glitter which can’t be recycled. As good property management, we endorse recycling and encourage it wherever possible. Before throwing

Did you know, we buy around six million Christmas trees each year? That’s £300m! In weight terms that’s around 160,000 tonnes with 80% of these being the now popular variety of “non-drop” Nordmann Fir Christmas tree. But what do you do with your sparkly Christmas tree after the fun ends

When Revolution started 12 years ago, parking at apartment buildings was a requirement of nearly everyone. Now we find that car parks are, in some cases, standing half empty. This is more an issue for those buildings inside the city centre. Getting into the city by car becomes more and

Hands up if you are on LinkedIn. If you’re involved in business management of some sort you might well have been contacted by numerous recruitment companies. We remember before the last financial troubles being hounded (by phone then) by recruitment companies. At the time, the financial troubles which followed seemed

Well, winter is on its way after the best summer in years. People say we’ll get a hard winter, but it’s impossible to know. At Revolution, we check the long-range forecast for the weather each month (you’ll be glad to know November is going to be mild). One of the reasons for

How do I find a good property manager? The starting point to finding yourself a property management company is ARMA (Association of Residential Managing Agents). You can search for a member here: https://arma.org.uk/leaseholders/search-for-a-member ARMA audit their members (of which we are one) and have a new system called ARMA-Q (which

Well, at Revolution we are going to trial this exact statement. We are testing a piece of software that links into our customer system. The idea with this software is that when people call in with a specific issue, you select that issue on their account and it will then

Do you think your building is paying too much for electricity? If this is the case, there can be a number of reasons: Your contract is not on the best possible value. You’re paying 20% VAT when you should only be paying 5% VAT. You need to do an energy

There are so many options for broadband these days. When you live in an apartment you probably have more options of broadband supplier. You don’t have to simply be stuck with using broadband through the BT phone socket. This will normally be one of the slowest options. Below we’ve listed

Passwords – we have so many! Over the past 18 months, I have found it harder and harder to keep track of all of my passwords and websites. In property management, we are obsessed with data protection and this keeps bringing new security processes, but this does make things seem